WEIGHTLIFTING
Nationwide Weightlifting Championships
Lovepreet Singh and Gurdeep Singh took the boys’s 109kg and +109kg titles respectively on the concluding day of the Nationwide Weightlifting Championships at Itanagar on Sunday.
Lovepreet totalled 345kg to win by 13kg. Gurdeep’s 362kg was 10kg greater than his nearest rival.
The outcomes:
Males: 109kg: 1. Lovepreet Singh (SSCB) snatch 160kg, clear and jerk 185kg, complete 345kg; 2. Mohd. Jameer Hussain (SSCB) 148kg, 184kg, 332kg; 3. Naveen (Har) 144kg, 184kg, 328kg; +109kg: 1. Gurdeep Singh (RSPB) 161kg, 201kg, 362kg; 2. S. Rudramayan (RSPB) 165kg, 187kg, 352kg; 3. Hitesh Kumar (SSCB) 147kg, 190kg, 337kg.
Crew titles: Senior males: RSPB, Greatest lifter: Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg, Miz); Senior girls: RSPB, Greatest lifter: Dipali Gursale (45kg, RSPB)
-Y.B. Sarangi
CHESS
Chennai Open: Srihari attracts Fedorov in closing spherical to emerge champion
LR Srihari secured a draw in opposition to Belarusian Alexei Fedorov within the closing spherical to emerge champion within the Chennai Open Worldwide Grandmaster Chess Event 2023 right here on Sunday.
Srihari registered seven wins, and three attracts on his solution to the title.
With an ELO ranking of 2500, Srihari is now away from his third and closing GM Norm.
Nguyen Duc Hoa (Vietnam) took the second spot.
Different Indian ends in closing spherical (Spherical 10):
Savchenko Boris defeated Abhishek Kelkar, Podolchenko Evgeniy defeated Nithin Babu, Aakash G defeated Buscara Sevan, Vijay Shreeram drew Laxman RR, Glek Igor defeated Pawar Harshit, Aronyak Ghosh drew Murali Krishnan BT, Viani Antonio Dcunha defeated Ziatdinov Raset, Shahil Dey defeated Bosale Shriraj, Khusenkhojaev Muhammad drew Matta Vinay Kumar and Manish Anto Cristiano drew Kulkarni Vinayak.
-PTI
GOLF
Samay Wadhawan progresses to second spherical of All India Snooker Open
Samay Wadhawan notched up a snug 4-0 win over Md. Shafique Khatri within the best-of-7-frame qualifying draw first spherical match of the NSCI Baulkline 3.0 All India Snooker Open right here on Sunday.
Samay registered a 60-52, 51-7, 75-45, 62-8 victory over Shafique to maneuver to the second spherical.
Pune-based Shivam Arora additionally waltzed to a 4-0 victory over Hormuz Pardiwala in one other match.
Arora confirmed nice contact and with breaks of 74 within the second body and a 49 break later gave Pardiwala no likelihood of placing up a combat and raced to a 67-20, 74-0, 77-8 and 91-19 victory.
Rahul Narang of Matoshree Membership was additionally on a roll as he eased previous Jai Shroff 4-0 (80-32, 71-30, 69-51 and 62-53) to enter the second spherical.
Akash Israni went down combating to Suyog Mukadam 3-4 in an engrossing affair.
In a nervy seventh body, Mukadam got here out stronger to win the decider with a 35-51, 49-63, 49-18, 84-37, 45-35, 38-51 57-49 verdict and progress to the second spherical.
In one other keenly contested match, Gaurav Prabhu received the higher of Karan Chugani 4-3 (52-14, 35-68, 49-58. 25-64, 47-2, 59-25 and 62-39) to additionally transfer into the following spherical.
-PTI
TENNIS
ITF Juniors: Robust presence from USA and Europe to pose problem to Indian gamers
The robust presence of gamers from the USA and Europe ought to pose a stiff problem for the Indian gamers to make a mark within the ITF junior tennis event to be performed on the DLTA Advanced from Monday.
Solely Rethin Pranav within the boys part, and Maaya Rajeshwaran within the ladies part, have gotten a seeding, of fifth and sixth respectively, among the many Indian gamers, which ought to present a good trace of the robust subject.
Rethin had misplaced within the semifinals and Maaya received crushed within the quarterfinals final week in Chandigarh and will need to provide you with one thing particular to raised their efficiency this week, within the chilly atmosphere.
Fairly curiously, Rethin opens in opposition to his doubles associate Moise Kouame of France, who had crushed him on his solution to the title in Chandigarh.
As luck would have it, Maaya additionally meets the champion of final week, Maria Golovina, within the first spherical. Maaya had performed a three-setter in opposition to Maria in Chandigarh.
General, it ought to be energetic motion this week, from a few of the greatest juniors on the planet.
The seedings:
Boys: 1. Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukr), Vojtech Vales (Cze), 3. Ognjen Milic (Srb), 4. Rohan Belday (USA), 5. Rethin Pranav, 6. Ilyas Maratuly (Kaz), 7. Pham La Hoang Anh (Vie), 8. Duje Markovina (Cro).
Women: 1. Lidia Podgorichani (Tha), 2. Maya Iyengar (USA), 3. Christasha McNeil (USA), 4. Daria Shadchneva, 5. Anya Murthy (USA), 6. Maaya Rajeshwaran, 7. Petra Konjikusic (Srb), 8. Kira Bataikina.
-Kamesh Srinivasan